GOP front-runner Donald Trump was heavily criticized for comments he made saying women who have abortions should be met with “some sort of punishment,” the Associated Press reports. Criticism came from those on either side of the abortion debate, which later spurred Trump’s correction that the doctors who perform the procedure should be “held legally responsible, not the woman.” Trump also clarified that in the case of an abortion the woman is a “victim” and so is “the life in her womb.” These comments, and attacks earlier in the week against a female reporter who claims she was assaulted by the candidate’s campaign manager, could hurt Trump’s standing among women. In 2012 women made up 53 percent of the electorate.

A 14-month-old girl died after undergoing a dental procedure at Austin Children’s Dentistry Tuesday morning, the American-Statesman’s Katie Urbaszewski reports. Daisy Lynn Torres was pronounced dead two hours after EMS were summoned to the dentist’s office. The office declined to say what procedure Torres was undergoing, and her cause of death is pending an autopsy report, performed Wednesday. “She went to the dentist. Then her mother called me and asked me to pray because something went wrong and they were taking her to the hospital. Next thing we know, we’re planning funeral arrangements,” said the girl’s aunt, Jessica Castaneda.

In an effort to create a barrier around the damaged reactors in Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, the operator switched on a refrigeration system Thursday that is intended to create an underground ice wall, which will keep radioactive water from flowing freely, the Associated Press reports. The wall will form over several months as pipes the size of a 10-story building pump coolant, freezing the surrounding soil. The plant was damaged in an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

Students who were affected by a glitch during this year’s STARR testing that prevented them from saving their answers, will not be required to finish or retake the test, the American-Statesman’s Melissa B. Taboada reports. The Texas Education Agency announced that students would face “no adverse consequences” for the glitch. It is still uncertain how many students were affected by the glitch. Similar issues occurred in 2012.

Michael Collins holds an adze, a stone tool used in working wood. On the mat is an unfinished spearhead, or preform, that is broken into three pieces, probably because the maker of the point could not get the tip thin enough. Collins has been digging for ancient artifacts for about 50 years, twenty of those at Zilker Park. He has uncovered pieces as old as 10,000 years in the area. “What we find out is more important than what we find,” he says.

What does it really mean to be an “original” Austinite? According to the journal of Science, “the oldest confirmed site of human habitation in the Americas” may have been just north of Austin, the American-Statesman’s Eric Webb reports. Artifacts found near the site “appear to push back the arrival date [of early known humans] by several thousand years.” So what do you really know about the “old” Austin?